Keystone The diagnostic Brief No. 002 / 2026

Keystone · Launching soon

Know what your business is worth. Know exactly what is discounting it.

Three scores and an estimated sale price, calibrated against a decade of closed transactions. Free in four minutes. Join the waitlist for first access the day it opens.

Keystone · Launching soon

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Three scores

What Keystone measures.

BIS
Business Independence Score
Can the business run without you?

Measures how much the operation depends on your daily involvement: the decisions only you make, the customers who call you by name, and what stalls when you step away for two weeks.

SMS
Systems Maturity Score
Is it documented, or in your head?

Measures how much of the business is written down and repeatable: standard procedures, clean handoffs, and whether a new manager could run it from the record rather than from you.

AAS
Acquisition Attractiveness Score
Would a buyer pay up for it?

Measures how a buyer scores the factors that set the multiple: clean books, recurring revenue, customer concentration, and how transferable the whole business is.

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How it works

From diagnostic to sale price in four minutes.

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Step one

Answer 18 questions, four minutes

Answer 18 questions about how your business actually operates. Free, no credit card, under four minutes.

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Step two

Your real number, and the three scores behind it

An estimated sale price range calibrated against ten years of closed transactions, plus the three scores that set it: how independent the business is, how documented it is, and what a buyer would see. Most owners have never seen this number.

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Step three

What is discounting your value, in what order to fix it

A ranked list of the specific changes that move your number most, so you work on the $50,000 problem before the $5,000 one.

Before launch

Have a question first? Ask the Operator.

A straight answer on what your number is built on, what it costs, or whether it fits your business. No pitch, and no figure I cannot ground.

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Pricing

Free to start. Upgrade when it earns its keep.

The prices below are what each tier costs at launch. Annual billing saves two months: pay for ten, use twelve. Join the waitlist to lock in first access.

Free
$0
Always free

One business. The diagnostic and your three scores, free forever.

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Core
$129/mo
$1,290 /yr

An owner tracking one business toward a stronger number over time.

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Also available
Buyer $79/mo

Screening a target before an offer.

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Portfolio $349/mo

Several businesses from one view.

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Advisor $399/mo

Diagnostics for a book of clients.

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Practice $799/mo

The diagnostic across a team.

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Annual billing saves two months on every paid tier: pay for ten, use twelve. The free diagnostic never asks for a card.

The data behind the estimate

A number built on asking prices is built on the seller’s wish.

Most owners carry a number from a broker or an accountant, built on what businesses ask, not what they close for. Keystone calibrates against a decade of closed transactions and 1.6M+ SBA 7(a) loan records, so your estimate reflects what a buyer actually pays.

10 yrs
of closed transactions

Every estimate is calibrated against completed sales, not asking prices.

1.6M+
SBA 7(a) loan records

Public loan data grounds the multiples by industry and business size.

$555K
independence gap at $300K SDE

The spread between an owner-dependent and owner-independent sale at $300K SDE.

See the full methodology, sources, and what the estimate is not →

The Systems Sprint

The scores show the gap. The Sprint closes it.

A 30-day engagement that installs the operating layer your valuation is missing. Delivered once. No retainer.